Small tidbits and Sparks of wisdom

1.He Bears Our Burdens

Tehillim 68:20, “Blessed be Hashem Who day by day bears our burden. God is our salvation, selah,” may be understood in this way: Every day He brings and bestows on us His blessings and goodness. Therefore, one should meditate deeply on this and reach the fullest sense of trust in God, knowing that He daily prepares all of our needs. One should not worry at all about tomorrow.

Gemara Beitzah 16a says that Beis Hillel quoted this verse as a dictum to live by. Rashi explains it thus: Every day God shoulders our needs and aids us.
(Eved Ha-melech)

2.Not on Bread Alone

The author of Chovos Ha-levavos explains that a person who trusts in God is guaranteed his food. The manna was given to us to teach us that “Man does not live on bread alone, it is on the word of God that man sustains himself” (Devarim 8:3).

Nothing is beyond God’s capability, no matter what the circumstances or the hour. We see this from the stories of Eliyahu and the ravens (Melachim 17:2-6), the story involving the impoverished widow (ibid., 8-16), and when he fled into the desert without food or water. On the verge of death, he miraculously found cake baked on coals and a flask of water by his head (I Melachim 19:1-8). Ovadyah, living in the time of the wicked Izevel, personally hid and fed a hundred prophets during a famine.

3.Livelihood and Trust

Tehillim 34:11 expresses this: “The young lions lack and suffer hunger, but those who seek Hashem shall not lack any good thing.” “Fear God, you holy ones of His. For there is no deprivation for those who fear Him” (ibid. 34:10).
(Chovos Ha-levavos)

4.Providing for a Livelihood

It says in Mishlei 22:19, “So that your trust may be in God, I have made known to you this day, even to you.” This verse teaches us to trust that God will provide a livelihood and all our needs for us. We should also maximize our study of Torah and the fulfillment of commandments, and not claim that making a living is an excuse for not studying Torah.
(Eved Ha-melech)

5.Lesson of the Manna

“Moshe said, ‘This is the thing which Hashem commands: Fill an omer of manna to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out from the land of Egypt’” (Shemos 16:32).

This teaches us to see and reflect upon how Hashem fed and nourished our forefathers in an arid wilderness with manna, where they lacked for nothing. Also, we learn from here to study Torah and fulfill the commandments with all our strength, believing that God will provide us with an income of the best sort, without our claiming that earning a living leaves no time for Torah study.
(Eved Ha-melech)

6.False Trust

Someone who trusts solely in doctors and their medications when he is sick is on the level of an atheist, be it overt or covert. For instance, when you see someone professing belief in God with his lips, saying, “God is the One Who gives a livelihood and impoverishes, brings into life and causes death, smites and heals,” yet secretly he trusts in his accumulated wealth and the success of his entrepreneurship, and when he is sick he secretly trusts in the medications the doctor prescribes — this type of person is a wicked person, as the verse says, “The wicked man… thinks: There is no God” (Tehillim 10:4).

Such people are dependent on transient means and false hopes, the very epitome of what the prophets and righteous men abhor. This is what David Ha-melech said of them: “I despise those who long for transient and passing things, but as for me, unto God do I trust” (ibid. 31:7)
They are close to being atheists, the only difference being that their lack of belief is shrouded, invisible to the public eye.

This is the point on which Iyov exonerated himself (31:24), saying, “If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my trust.” The prophet likewise said, “Cursed is the person who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Hashem” (Yirmeyahu 17:5).
(R. Avraham ben Rambam)